Category System Design

Introduction In modern application deployment, containers and virtual machines (VMs) are two foundational technologies that provide isolation, portability, and scalability for running applications in distributed systems. Both are critical for achieving high availability (e.g., 99.999% uptime), scalability (e.g., 1M req/s),…

Introduction Cloud computing has transformed how organizations build, deploy, and scale applications, enabling high availability (e.g., 99.999% uptime), scalability (e.g., 1M req/s), and cost efficiency. Cloud service models—Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a…

Introduction Cloud-native design refers to an architectural approach that leverages cloud computing to build and operate scalable, resilient, and agile applications optimized for dynamic, distributed environments. Unlike traditional monolithic architectures, cloud-native systems are designed to exploit cloud capabilities such as…

Introduction In modern distributed systems, APIs are critical for enabling communication between services, clients, and external systems, particularly in microservices architectures handling high-scale traffic (e.g., 1M req/s) and requiring high availability (e.g., 99.999% uptime). As systems evolve, APIs must adapt…

Introduction In large-scale web applications, traditional monolithic front-end architectures often become unwieldy, leading to challenges in scalability, maintainability, and team autonomy. Micro Frontends extend the microservices philosophy to the front-end, enabling independent development, deployment, and scaling of UI components or…

Introduction In microservices architectures, managing inter-service communication is a complex challenge due to the distributed nature of systems, requiring robust solutions for scalability (e.g., 1M req/s), resilience (e.g., 99.999% uptime), security, and observability. A Service Mesh is a dedicated infrastructure…

Introduction In microservices architectures, ensuring system resilience is critical to maintain high availability (e.g., 99.999% uptime) and handle failures gracefully under high load (e.g., 1M req/s). Resiliency patterns such as Circuit Breaker, Bulkhead, Retry, and Timeout address these challenges by…

Introduction In microservices architectures, auxiliary design patterns such as the Sidecar, Ambassador, and Adapter Patterns enhance service functionality by offloading cross-cutting concerns, simplifying external integrations, and adapting interfaces, respectively. These patterns address challenges like scalability (e.g., 1M req/s), resilience (e.g.,…

Introduction The Strangler Fig Pattern is a strategic approach for incrementally migrating a monolithic application to a microservices architecture by gradually replacing components of the monolith with microservices. Inspired by the strangler fig plant, which grows around a host tree…